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by t_mann 3y ago
It's funny, I remembered that exchange pretty much the opposite way - if you'd listened to those internet experts, you'd have been dead sure that a system that's been running for one and a half decades without major hicc
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Not sure I agree. Being the thing that the tech folks find cool isn't a bad starting position at all. And it's significantly harder to achieve than DM's.
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World model sounds too much of physics than it deserves imho. If you want to name it after what's being modeled (which it doesn't need to be, it could also be named after the methods used eg), why not just call it something like g
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by t_mann 3y ago
> so then why bother using it at all? Because it's still more efficient that way [0]. [0] https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=64700
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by t_mann 3y ago
In some way, I'd be grateful if they screwed up ChatGPT (even though I really like to use it). The best way to be sure that no corporation can mess with one of your most important work tools is to host it yourself, and correct for the
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by t_mann 3y ago
Assuming the hardware wallet is safe, and that you indeed check all the recipient addresses and make no mistakes there, I don't see how the software should be able to fool you, though? I would assume that the hardware wallet is built t
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Statistics is more than hypothesis testing, but you'll get surprisingly far without straying too far from linear models - I remember a Stats prof saying 'most of classical Statistics is GLM [0]' [0] https://en.wiki
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by t_mann 3y ago
I can't speak for valuations, but I don't see the 'no logical buyers' argument. This product has multiple competitor products, mostly at far higher price points, any of those manufacturers would seem like a logical buyer
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by t_mann 3y ago
Isn't that how a lot of software gets written now? Why would malware be different?
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A lot of grand words that boil down to 'Meta makes 'em cheaper'. Let's not kid ourselves. Zuck's big vision was pretty similar to Apple's (except mainly derived from a dystopian Sci-Fi novel), it's just th
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by t_mann 3y ago
I hear that argument lot, but the perspective that seems missing to me are the secondary effects - right now, we have a lot of self-reinforcing loops from rising temperatures, like melting permafrost emitting even more greenhouse gases. At
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by t_mann 3y ago
I actually share the sentiment about Ballmer, but then the actually shared characteristic is poor management, no? MS just happened to have enough legs to limp out of a bad management episode on.
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According to that theory, we should have expected Windows Phone to be a success, no? Microsoft was (and is) killing it at software, especially consumer-facing OS. If anything, your argument makes me even less convinced that we have any good
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by t_mann 3y ago
This just feels like ex-post rationalization. It's easy to come up with a story why something failed after the fact, but that doesn't mean the theory has any weight. If you want this to be interesting, put some skin in the game an
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by t_mann 3y ago
ARIMA models, seasonal adjustments,... this is still largely based on the Box-Jenkins method (developed in the 70's!). I feel like this stuff has been taught the same way for decades now (maybe similar to undergraduate classical mechan
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by t_mann 3y ago
Judging from the one screenshot example, I actually like Monocraft better. It really has that nice Minecraft/retro look, and I think this could actually help get kids who are into Minecraft into coding. That being said, I actually stil
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by t_mann 3y ago
How do projects that get canned after a short time benefit the CVs of the managers who launched them? Serious question.
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by t_mann 3y ago
Just an example of a sport that got quite reshaped by AI, but not necessarily in a bad way. The differences between the sports could hardly be greater, and the way they'd be impacted by computers would also likely be quite different.
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by t_mann 3y ago
Exactly. Right now, the best an athlete can do is to just give it their all, and I guess for a lot of people that would be what gymnastics is about. The potential for optimization with such machines is just on another level. You can re-run
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by t_mann 3y ago
It's not just the je ne sais quoi performance aspect that I'd be concerned about, it's something I'd call Wii-Sports -ification: the first time you try out movement-controlled games like they made the Wii console popu
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by t_mann 3y ago
Can you share sources for that claim?
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by t_mann 3y ago
The general observation is of course true, but we're talking about a particular instance, and I think it could be a pretty good fit here. The expectation when you first try modern image or text generators is sth like 'this will re
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by t_mann 3y ago
It's not just about cropping out relevant parts of a video (which can absolutely still happen with CCTV, btw). Like I said, there might be some bigger context that wouldn't even be visible if you had a full 3D rendering of the who
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by t_mann 3y ago
I don't think that needs to be true, though. Let's go with the UK since the article mentions the British PM, there are trustable sources like BBC and other media whose journalists can verify events on scene can work with trusted p
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by t_mann 3y ago
I'm not denying that and I am concerned about that possibility. The thing is, I don't think you need deep or any fakes at all for that. What it takes are people willing to believe lies and consume hatred (fwiw, WWII was based on h
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Assuming it'll be true, I'm not sure it has to be just a bad thing. We got used to treating videos/photos as the kind of objective evidence that they never were. It's not hard for an image to be both factually correct&#x
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by t_mann 3y ago
You're confusing Taler with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs, the Eurozone incarnation of which would be the Digital Euro). I suppose the project being funded through an EU grant could mean that it's in consideration to be u
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by t_mann 3y ago
My understanding is that a Taler is a "use-once" note - you create it from a payment provider balance, then you can transfer it to someone else, but then that person then has to redeem the coupon, they can't transfer it again
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by t_mann 3y ago
> I wonder why you just don't use traditional study methods at this point. Because I'm not a student. Why is it so hard to accept that I know what I want and am just looking for recommendations that do that? If they don't
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by t_mann 3y ago
The link between the decline of piracy and rising global temperatures was the industrialization of the British empire - studying piracy (unsurprisingly) wouldn't have yielded any insights on climate change. Similarly, interest rates ma

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